Wow, what kind of person would go on the Internet and just pretend to be somebody else online? People these days have no shame anymore.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2024
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Long version of There Are No Girls on the Internet.
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I mean Morgan Freeman has openly stated he wished black people didn't use the nword and there are black Republicans so this could very well be a real thing
Reminds me of gamergate, which saw an unprecedented number of women and various minorities sign up to social media purely to voice their support for gamergate and say it wasn’t a sexist or racist movement honest.
As a strong black woman, I'm kind of pissed that we lost all those talented female lyricists and R&B singers who got Thanos snapped out of existence in the late 90s because they didn't want to sell sex. It makes me want to slap a bitch for calling it "empowerment"...
At least my inner black woman is angry af because of that.
The music industry is garbage, pure garbage. Sony and Universal execs have a special place in hell.
all those talented female lyricists and R&B singers who got Thanos snapped out of existence in the late 90s because they didn't want to sell sex
I dont know much about 90s music😅, could you please share some of those lyricists and singers (or suggest any of their songs)? I'm interested in listening to some of their songs :)
Kinda sad that I wasn't much aware of this issue..
...I can't. You can find them on various features, with among others De La Soul, but the point is they left. You'd have to amass the amount of hip-hop music that I have and draw a timeline where you can see them being phased out.
It's around the time LL Cool J turned into a sex symbol and when De La had to "add some badass to perlong their life over the drum."
One of these days I want to do the whole research route, but just so I can juxtapose it to country - which also suffered the same fate, only a half a century earlier.
Capitalism is a slow crawl to mediocrity and exploitation. No culture can really survive it.
I agree with the music industry problems. Luckily I have found some great hip hop and country recently.
The sad thing? Country used to be rebellious... I mean actually rebellious, none of this Trojan horse nationalism and fascism disguised as "traditionalism".
We're talking Johnny Paycheck, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and the queen her self, Dolly Parton.
But, as of late, I've said this:
Shout outs to the women of country, for bringing back the tradition - of writing songs about shooting your spouse in the face.
Keep the dream alive.
Woody Gutherie, Utah Phillips.... I guess I am asking what divides county from folk.
When it comes to hip-hop? There was an enlightenment period where my heart still lies, before the stigma of being a "conscious rapper", "underground" - or even "backpacker".
I call this record industry psy-ops, because the music media tried to use it against anyone that didn't fit the bill. How do I know that?
THEY TRIED TO CALL JAY DILLA A BACKPACKER
Philistines, troglodytes, absolute cretins, scum of the earth. Dear god I hate the record industry.
Incidentally, if you want to go back into the past, I can recommend Quannum Records, the indie label of Blackalicious, Lifesavas, Latyrix and Lyrics Born.
Other than that, Def Jux, Rhymesayers (the mixtapes, get the friggin mixtapes), Stones Throw - ofc. Back when you needed an indie label.
Today we can happily say that bedroom productions will be the saving grace, mostly because it is seperate from the industry, so we do get a lot of great music.
But it also proves the industry is a homogeneous bottleneck.
I have a lot to learn. I appreciate the insight. I listen to Aesop Rock. I remember his work being with Rhymesayers.
God that's a really bad cartoon
It desperately needs a cursor in the text and racism not completely done being spelled to make it more obvious that it's what the angry white boy is typing and not what he's responding to.
Is he in prison
Translation: Stop talking about racism you are making me feel bad.
I like the "formally" vs "formerly" suggesting Elon is never going to get away from Twitter in favor of X
We never support dead naming except in the case of megacorporations
As long as Elon dead names his kid imma dead name his corporation
Explain? I don't keep up with Elon drama.
One of his many children is trans, and she has disowned Elon for his terrible behavior. He doesn't respect her identity, pretends she is a stereotypical trans person (the right wing stereotype), and pretends he wasn't an absent father to her.
That seems depressing on her part. But I already assumed he would be a shitty father. With his behaviour online, I would assume he was a dead beat father.
Frank Heffley…
I like "xitter" (pronounced 'shitter')
I always pronounced it zhitter
People use false identity? Whaaat? :o
As a pirate from the 16th century I am as shocked as you are
No, that's not possible. And you can trust me, I'm Albert Einstein.